Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

It is always a good month for mystery readers if there is a new Michael Connelly book at hand—doubly so if it happens to feature world-weary L.A. cop Harry Bosch. In Connelly’s latest, The Drop, Bosch commands the LAPD cold case unit, serving out his final three years before forced retirement. Cases scarcely get any colder—or any stranger—than his current one: Newly...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

At long last, Joseph Wambaugh fans have cause for celebration, with the release of Hollywood Station, his first LAPD novel in years. As usual, his cops are something of a motley crew: a pair of surfers known to their compadres as Flotsam and Jetsam; a decorated veteran known simply as The Oracle; a wannabe actor who serves as police liaison for the film industry; and a pair of plucky female...